Amber Dawn Lee - Zion Society (Fundamentalist Mormon Cult)

Trust Me: Cults, Extreme Belief, and Manipulation

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🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Episode 14: **TW: This episode contains detailed descriptions of sexual assault and child abuse.** Meagan and Lola interview Amber Dawn Lee about her childhood in Zion Society, a Fundamentalist Mormon group run by self-proclaimed prophet Arvin Shreeve. They discuss how she lived in poverty with extremist parents, what it was like in the abusive cult, and what the "sexual way of life" was. They also discuss life afterward, and how she doesn't let the trauma of the experience rent space in her brain. If you have your own story about cults, high-control groups, manipulation, or abuse of power, shoot us an email at [email protected]. FOLLOW US ON INSTAGRAM: @trustmepodcast @oohlalola @vibehigherbitch OR TWITTER: @trustmecultpod @ohlalola

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0:00.0	Trust me.
0:02.0	Dude, you trust me.
0:03.0	Trust me. I'm like a smart person.
0:06.0	Yeah, I've never lied to you.
0:08.0	I never have lied to you.
0:09.0	Do you think that one person has all the answers?
0:12.0	Don't! Welcome to... That one person has all the answers.
0:12.6	Don't!
0:14.4	Welcome to Trust Me.
0:15.8	The podcast about Cold Extreme Belief
0:17.5	and the Abuse of Power from two life forms,
0:20.5	who actually lived it.
0:22.0	I am Lola Blanc and I'm Megan Elizabeth. Today our guest is
0:25.5	Amber Don Lee. She's a comedian actress and filmmaker who grew up in a Mormon
0:30.2	fundamentalist group. She's gonna tell us how she was abandoned by her mother
0:33.8	and adopted by new parents who then joined
0:35.7	several different Fundamentalist Mormon groups,
0:37.8	but most notably, this one called the Zion Society,
0:41.0	led by this self-proclaimed profit named Arvin Shreve.
0:44.6	Yep, she's also going to tell us about how they sewed lingerie to sell the strippers
0:49.4	insane and how the children were sexually abused not only by Arvin Chrief, but by the other women and by other children at his instruction.
0:58.0	And we will get into how she doesn't let that trauma run her life.
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